Report

The IIA standards (2400 - Communicating Results and 2410 Criteria for Communicating) requests that "Internal team members should communicate the engagement results." And that the communications should include the engagement's objectives, and scope as well as applicable conclusions, recommendations and findings.

The final output of each project is the project report. This deliverable is a communication of the engagement results to the client, containing the engagement team's scope, assessment, conclusions, and recommendations based on any of those results.

The project report is created by the project team, using their knowledge, execution results, analytics generated by the IA portal and any synthesis. The robust reporting suite within the IA Portal assists the project team in collecting and compiling this information. Reporting resources within the Governance Portal include:

• Dashboards - provide insight and a graphical view of aggregate information into specific areas
• Searches - provide the ability to create ad hoc queries to view information
• Reports - provide graphical and text based reports

In addition, the IA Portal provides the project team with a unique report that pulls much of the information documented and necessary for a project report (executive summary, findings summary, testing results etc.) as well as place holders for standard information (e.g. cover letter, table of contents etc.) into a deliverable report format. This report increases efficiency and reduces the team member's time by automating the collection of report data. This data may be exported and utilized in standard Word or PowerPoint report templates to create the final deliverable for the client.

To assist in the report creation and review process, a Project Report Form (work paper type) is available via the project activities. This form allows the project team to track the report status (e.g. preliminary, draft, final) through the review process. Once a report has been reviewed and designated as complete, the final report can be attached to the project report form. No further changes can be made to the report and a notification process can be utilized to assist with the distribution and handling of the report to all necessary parties.